Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

When you have a vague memory about a TV show or something, you should probably check YouTube. Sure enough, go to the site and you’ll find one of the more unusual Bond-inspired spy shows: Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, a Saturday morning program in which chimps were dressed up and “portrayed” spy characters while human actors [...]

Adult Swim’s Casino Royale parody

The expert parodists over at Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming have come up with a smashing take-off on the pre-credits sequence from 2006′s Casino Royale. Here, Santa Claus earns his “00″ status by taking out a wayward elf. To take a look, just CLICK HERE. We think it’s pretty hilarious!

007 questions for 2010

001. Who ends up buying MGM? The studio is partners with Eon Productions in the James Bond franchise. The uncertainty in MGM’s financial future put a stop to writing efforts on Bond 23 until February, according to screenwriter Peter Morgan. So whether a 007 fan cares about business news, this is one financial story that [...]

007 screenwriter Peter Morgan: enjoying Austria, just not doing any writing on Bond 23

The Commander Bond web site ran an item about this a few days ago but we wanted to see the original source. Peter Morgan, the Frost/Nixon screenwriter hired with a flourish to be one of the screenwriters on Bond 23, is enjoying his new life in Austria. He’s doing a bit of everything except writing [...]

007 press kits Part III: GoldenEye

GoldenEye marked James Bond’s movie return after a six-year absence and was do-or-die whether the film series could be successfully revived. The movie’s press kit may reflect that, because it’s flashier than at least some of its predecessors. Previous Bond press kits had consisted of various press releases, each one separately stapled. GoldenEye’s included a [...]

Mister 8 analyzes Matt Helm’s debut novel

Over at the Mister 8 Web site, there’s an interesting analysis of the first Matt Helm novel, Death Of a Citizen. It’s pretty detailed and recommend it to any fans of the literary Helm and his creator, Donald Hamilton. Back in August we posted about an academic paper that compared Hamilton’s Helm to Ian Fleming’s [...]

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007 press kits Part II: The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights had a relatively modest press kit but it had three stills compared to just one for Never Say Never Again. The stills consisted of: a photo of star Timothy Dalton, which was part of the main poster art; a closeup still of Dalton in a tuxedo, apparently from the Koskov/KGB defection sequence [...]

007 press kits part I: Never Say Never Again

In this digital age, press kits seem almost quaint. They were intended to spur movie critics of local newspapers to write and/or review upcoming movies. We have a few press kits for James Bond movies, so here’s a look at a few. First up: the “unofficial” 007 movie Never Say Never Again, which hit U.S. [...]

I Spy on Hulu

All three seasons of I Spy are now available on Hulu. To check it out, just CLICK RIGHT HERE. The 1965-68 series starred Robert Culp and Bill Cosby as two American agents and it made Cosby a star. A tip of the hat goes to the Bish’s Beat blog where we saw this.